The long awaited sequel to the start with the greeks guide.
>>980331
bump
>>980331
Mind posting the start with the Greeks pic?
>>980331
>No Heather or Goldsworth
0/10
What's wrong with Gibbon's work on the Romans?
>>980870
thanks
>>980331
>metamorphosis
>not ovid's pussy crushing guide aka ars amatoria
wew
>>980900
Not OP, but /his/ may not like him for his "Christ cucks killed Rome" meme.
>>981290
>implying Christcucks are even close to being a majority on /his/
>>981290
Or perhaps because it is an 18th century work with 18th century historiography.
>>981662
What are some specific things in Gibbon's work that has been superseded by more modern scholarship?
>>981673
Different anon here. I cant name anything specifucally but imagine that two centuries of archaeological and historiographical development as well as advances in the social sciences has totally changed our perception of Rome since gibbons time. Also gibbons didn't write about the early empire (30bc to 100ad)or republic either
>>980331
thank you bsed anon
>>981290
>Romans
>calling anyone else cvcks
>>981821
Gibbons also places anachronistic ideas of statehood on an era which didn't experience those ideas. It's much like Jacob Burckhardt and his romanticism of the Renaissance.
>>981290
Do you even read Gibbon? I read his Vol. V, and he never bothered to cite sources.
>>981839
>Dark Ages
Epictetus' Discourses is a better book than than Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and Seneca's Letters.
>>980331
>no Juvenal
>no Petronius (literally the minister of culture for Nero)
Also I didn't see Lucan whose Phsrsalia is very underappreciated
>>981821
It's still one of the greatest books made on Rome. Always a pleasure to read sections. It's good as a survey of Roman historical writing anyways since that was his only real influence/source
>>981839
>races
>in the roman era
This was obviously made by a dilletante.
Where's Lucretius?
Where's Petronius?
Where's Polybius?
Where's Plutarch?
Where's Apulieus?
Where's Cattulus?
